'Most of the country' will not be open by May 1, surgeon general says
President Donald Trump on Friday offered his most optimistic reading yet of U.S. efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic, even as his top health advisers cautioned that now is not the time to abandon the stringent mitigation measures that have sent the American economy into a tailspin.
"I'm going to have to make a decision, and I only hope to God that it's the right decision. But I would say, without question, it's the biggest decision I've ever had to make," he said. "There are places around the country that have seen consistently low levels. And as we ramp up testing and can feel more confident that these places actually can do surveillance and can do public health follow-up, some places will be able to think about opening on May 1," Surgeon General Jerome Adams said in an interview with Fox News on Friday.
The contrast has been particularly striking over the last few days. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told POLITICO Tuesday it was possible to restart the economy"in the next four to eight weeks," and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin endorsed a prediction Thursday on CNBC that"we could be open for business in the month of May" if public health experts approve.
More than 600 CDC employees are stationed around the country assisting with coronavirus response efforts, Redfield told NPR, but the agency is"going to have to substantially amplify" that workforce to ramp up contact tracing.
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